absent

t. [In Fr. absenter, fr. Lat. absento, v.t.to cause to be absent.] To make absent; to cause to leave, withdraw, or depart. At first not always with the reflective pronoun. " or what change Absents thee, or what chance detains?" Milton: Par . Lost , bk. L Now always with the reflective pronouns. "Some of those whom he had summoned absented themselves."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iv.